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Has anyone done this shot before?

Ok, i was imagining this shot just then and wondered if anyone has done it before?

here's how it goes

lets say your opponent plays a low serve OR does a net shot.
you reply with a straight net shot with your backhand and after that follow through and swing the racket as if you're doing a crosscourt lift/push.
remember, you're taking a huge backswing. you play a normal net shot and follow through your racket as if you're doing a crosscourt lift.
maybe you can net it and pull your racket head back a bit and swing again making it look like a crosscourt lift but in fact, you just did a net shot before that swing.

depending on how fast you play the net shot and follow through to the swing. if the shuttle has not cleared the net yet, and you're already swinging cross-court, don't you think thats rather deceptive?

depending on how fast you play the net shot and follow through to the swing. if the shuttle has not cleared the net yet, and you're already swinging cross-court, don't you think thats rather deceptive?

No, I don't. Sorry. I'll be watching the shuttle, not your theatrics.

If you mean, "hit a net shot with an apparently powerful swing", then that's totally different -- and yes, that is deceptive.

1) holding for a moment(most likely dropping racket head slightly,
2) then net the shuttle,
3) but follow through with a rather large swing action AFTER the shuttle had already been contacted

I would agree with Gollum only partially...most of the deception comes from before the contact...but i think a seemingly redundant, 'after-contact' swing sorts of wraps up the package as a whole, and thus adds to the deception.

The point is proven by a very similar stroke. The best term i could think of now would be what chinese commentators popularly call '直线滑板', which means 'Straight Slice'---meaning you slice the shuttle in such a way that it appears to be directed cross court, but actually you hit it straight. It's also supposed to be one of Gade's trademark shots. Most pros add extra movement of the racket head in the direction of the slice, even after the shuttle have been contacted.

So answer to your question is yes, it can be used.(but most of the time the 'after-contact' swing is still much smaller than a real, lifting swing.)
and Yes, it HAS BEEN used. When i find videos i'll post them

i think its possible: sliced (under the shuttle) net reply -- the shuttle travels very slowly and only short over the net but due to your very fast and huge raquet movement AFTER the contact people jump back because they think you just cleared the shuttle. Because your raquet movement happens faster and more obvious then the shuttle movement.

no, it is not a new swing. it is in the same sequence. just play the net shot (with no back swing) and move your racket head slightly to the right and make it look like a cross-court flick. remember, its more wrist than arm.